My kids recently started showing some interest in 3D printing ( introduced at school).
Need some suggestions on basic 3D printer models( may be around $250).
Most probably will source it from marketplace. There are so many models and confused what to look for as a beginner.
Appreciate some help here.
Thanks.
Its not on sale at the moment unfortunately. Keep checking as they are having a Creality event soon I believe. I may or may not work there.
Where possible ask to check or otherwise verify operation prior to transaction
Also look up costs and guides for common repairs or upgrades fit the printer you want
If it’s over your head, perhaps consider paying a little more for an a1 mini
Also look up costs and guides for common repairs or upgrades fit the printer you want
Let me guess, you own an Ender :)
(Not knocking you, I started with one and that's what I spent most my time doing)
Haha I started with a cr6-se. Nothing but issues and stuffing around. Would always have to hang around and make sure plate adhesion was good, and check on it every few hours to make sure wasn’t ended in a spaghetti mess.
My bambu a1 and a1m, I can start a print remotely , and come back to a perfect print everytime. No baby sitting. No worries.
Bambu A1 Mini when on sale. I have tinkered with 3D printers for the good part of a decade and this is the one that I use when I just want to print things and have them print the things, rather than the hobby of tinkering with and building printers themselves.
Sure thank you. Will look into it.
OP is crazy to get anything other than this
Creality E3 V3 se when on sale at $249. Prints great out of the box. No tinkering with this one.
Thank you. Will check.
2 different creality stores from Google. Any idea which one is official?
And can you please suggest basic accessories needed ?( Filament sensor, wifi box etc)
Buy at Jaycar , any issues is easy to take back.
I'd avoid marketplace for this kind of thing, buy new.
The first question- you want to print, or you want to learn how to troubleshoot? I'm going to guess it's the first one.
Bambu A1 Mini. Go over your stated budget by the hundred or so dollars.
Most probably will source it from marketplace. There are so many models and confused what to look for as a beginner.
You could get incredibly lucky, or more likely you end up with a POS that will soak up hours of your time troubleshooting mystery problems and you will bin it out of frustration. DO NOT BUY OFF MARKETPLACE UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW TO FIX PRINTERS.
Creality E3 V3
I've heard that Creality is no longer utter shite, but I had the V2 and it was total garbage. Unbelievably bad QC, bent parts right out of the box, the guys selling in the store even warned me off 'em.
Just want to print. Thanks.
Will look into those models.
Will look into those models.
I'm only recommending one model here. And it's not the Creality. You might get lucky, but even reading the very first comment on this thread "the Ender3 SEv3 i got it earlier in the year for $250…. 3d printers are fiddly" suggests this is still not a good choice.
There is almost nothing fiddly about a little Bambulabs printer, you'd have to be a real numpty to mess one up.
What this dude said.
I've been looking for a easy 3D printer too, nothing too crazy.
On facebook this brand kept popping up: https://store.anycubic.com/collections/fdm-printer
Does anyone recommend them? Might help OP too
I use Anycubic for all my 3D printers, both resin and filament. I’ve not had an issue with them. I know they are not the best on the market, but my Mega S just works. And it just prints and prints and prints. It certainly isn’t fast or as fine as the Bambu X1 (or whatever it is) we have at work, but it was about 1/10th the price.
I think they are on par with most of the cheaper machines like Ender and Creality machines, but nowhere near Bambu or Prusa printers.
State Library of Queensland has 5 x Prusa i3 MK3 3D printers. I gather you need to attend 3D Printer induction @$45 to be eligible to book the printers. Participants must be over 16 years of age which may be a deal breaker.
Logan City Council Libraries has 2 x Prusa i3 MK2S printers available for use by library members.
As someone who has had at least 5 different 3D printers (both FDM and resin), the only brand I can recommend in good faith to people new to the hobby is Bambu. They really are the "Apple of 3D printing". Save yourself the frustration of needing to learn a million different things about the hardware and the firmware, and just go with a product that "just works". Yes, they're more expensive and have proprietary parts/proprietary firmware - but they print almost flawlessly with very little tweaking required.
A1 mini
On a related note, does anyone know how cheap the A1 mini will get during the Black Friday sales? Someone on the Bambu thread mentioned there may be bigger discounts come BF.
I have a Belco which the kids lost interest in within weeks.
If you're in WA happy to flog it cheap if you can pick up.
Too awkward to try and ship so only if you're in WA.
Bambu +1
Avoid resin.
Avoid kingroon
For filament, buy from siddament or Amazon cc3d.
Another vote for Bambu- other than putting it together it will be putting out good prints pretty much straight out of the box.
My partner owns crealty and spends mote tome getting it to work properly than actually printing.
That was what prompted me to get Bambu and I haven’t regretted it - it sinply prints!
Check out Jaycar to see if they are having a sale on the Ender3 SEv3 i got it earlier in the year for $250.
3d printers are fiddly and as much as I love buying stuff on marketplace i wonder if some of the fiddle factor will be harder on a machine that has unknown history.